21 Facts About Daphne Foskett

Daphne Foskett was an English art connoisseur and art writer.

Daphne Foskett became interested in portrait miniatures while living in Edinburgh in the late 1950s and was encouraged to publish her research as her knowledge on the subject grew.

Daphne Foskett conducted lecture tours and was a contributor to some periodicals.

Daphne Foskett was born at Shoddesden, Kimpton, Hampshire on 23 December 1911.

Daphne Foskett was the daughter of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry captain John William Carnegie Kirk and his wife, Agnes Maud Haynes, Kirk.

Daphne Foskett was of Scottish ancestry through her paternal grandfather, John Kirk, the botanist and physician.

Daphne Foskett grew up primarily in Sevenoaks, Kent, and was taught at the private St Ives School, Bexhill, Sussex, but did not have any formal qualifications when she left the school.

Daphne Foskett was as a matron at a Kent preparatory school in the mid-1930s.

Daphne Foskett worked in the Nottinghamshire parishes of Rainworth from 1937 to 1943 before moving to Ordsall until 1947.

Daphne Foskett later moved to work in Ilkeston, Derbyshire from 1948 to 1956.

Daphne Foskett followed with the first monograph on the 18th-century miniaturist John Smart the following year.

Daphne Foskett was appointed a governor of St Anne's School, Windermere in 1971.

Daphne Foskett republished A Dictionary of British Miniature Painters together with a new edition of Collecting Miniatures to compile the single-volume Miniatures: Dictionary and Guide in 1979.

In 1981, Daphne Foskett wrote her eighth piece of work, Elizabethan Miniatures.

Daphne Foskett was a consultant on the 'Artists of the Tudor Court' exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1983 and authored an unpublished but completed manuscript on a major period of the portrait miniature.

Daphne Foskett contributed to the periodicals Antique Dealer, Apollo, Collector's Guide and The Connoisseur.

Daphne Foskett was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and was a member of the Royal Over-Seas League and Theta Sigma Phi.

Daphne Foskett went on lecture tours to London and the United States, and built up a large photographic archive as well as conducting international correspondence on a wide scale.

Daphne Foskett was married to the curate and bishop Reginald Foskett from 7 April 1937 until his death in 1973.

Daphne Foskett died in the Solihull Parkway Hospital on 15 June 1998.

Daphne Foskett's miniatures were catalogued in the same year, as well as the watercolour portrait of Foskett being presented to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.